New Plesiosaur Fossil Discovery – What It Means for the Loch Ness Monster
Artist’s impression of spinosaurus and plesiosaur in a river. Credit: Dr. Nick Longrich/University of Bath Plesiosaur fossils discovered in an ancient riverbed suggests some species, traditionally thought to be sea creatures, may have lived in freshwater.Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been discovered in a 100-million-year-old river system that is now in Morocco’s Sahara Desert. This discovery suggests some species of plesiosaur, previously thought to be sea…